Creeley, Robert 1979; 1983; 1985

Friday, January 26, 1979
Sunday, September 25, 1983
Friday, October 18, 1985
Vintage poster of Robert Creeley's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Robert Creeley’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

It is a viscous form of self-
propulsion that lets the feet grip
the floor as the head
lifts to the door,

Robert Creeley, “Going To Bed”

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Listen to Robert Creeley’s 2000 Poetry Center reading:

There is love only
as love is. These
sense recreate
their definition–a hand

– Robert Creeley, “Variations”

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Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

The man sits in a timelessness
with the horse under him in time
to a movement of legs and hooves
upon a timeless sand.

– Robert Creeley, “The Rescue”

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Watch Robert Creeley read his poem, “When I Think:”

When I Think by Robert Creeley

to hear more, go to: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Creeley.php Robert Creeley reads at CUE Art Foundation on January 18, 2005.

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